Democrats’ revolt against ‘elitist’ Pelosi put down after promises to ‘Black women’

Democrats’ revolt against ‘elitist’ Pelosi put down after promises to ‘Black women’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 21, 2018 A challenge to Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi’s run for Speaker of the House was quickly crushed when dirt resurfaced on the potential challenger for the gavel. Reports emerged this week that the challenger, Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, once defended an Ohio judge facing domestic violence charges. The same […]

Mounting crisis on the border exacerbated by judge’s ruling

Mounting crisis on the border exacerbated by judge’s ruling

by WorldTribune Staff, November 21, 2018 A judge’s decision on Nov. 20 to temporarily block the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants at the U.S.’s southern border will make a bad situation worse, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents say. U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of San Francisco ruled that President Donald Trump […]

House panel issues year-end subpoenas for Comey, Lynch

House panel issues year-end subpoenas for Comey, Lynch

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 With the clock ticking down on his tenure as House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte said he plans to subpoena former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch for closed-door depositions as part of an investigation into the FBI and Department of Justice’s handling of […]

Coastal Democrats dominate new Congress; More from California than 36 states combined

Coastal Democrats dominate new Congress; More from California than 36 states combined

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 The Democratic Party’s dominance of the coasts will be evident when the new Congress convenes in January. The Washington, D.C. firm Mehlman, Castagnetti, Rosen, and Thomas noted in an analysis that 155 of the Democrats’ 233 House members will be from the East or West Coast. The will be […]

Administration takes fresh look at Alaska’s energy potential

Administration takes fresh look at Alaska’s energy potential

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 The Trump administration said it is re-evaluating Obama-era land management policy that kept millions of acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska off limits to drilling. The Interior Department announced it is looking at areas of the 22.1-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) that can be opened for oil […]

Logging council backs Trump on forest management as factor in wildfires

Logging council backs Trump on forest management as factor in wildfires

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 There is “truth” to President Donald Trump’s statement that poor forest management was a significant factor in the devastating California wildfires, the American Loggers Council said. “President Trump blamed poor forest management for wildfires in California and throughout the West, and there is truth to statements he has made,” […]

Newt Gingrich: Left is winning the ‘linguistic war’

Newt Gingrich: Left is winning the ‘linguistic war’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 20, 2018 A huge takeaway from the 2018 midterm elections is that the Left is “waging – and winning – a linguistic war,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said. “ ‘Racism’ is a word that is so commonly used by left-wing news media and politicians to describe conservative positions that one […]

The ‘Californication’ of Northern Virginia: Liberal hubs dominating state politics called national trend

The ‘Californication’ of Northern Virginia: Liberal hubs dominating state politics called national trend

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 Three liberal counties are dominating the political landscape in Virginia and “the rest of the state is carried along inexorably, and unwillingly, by the irresistible hordes of Northern Virginia’s superior numbers,” a columnist wrote. “Ole Virginny is no more,” A.J. Rice, CEO of Publius Public Relations, wrote for The […]

CNN’s Kirsten Powers damns all white women who voted for Trump: ‘That makes you racist’

CNN’s Kirsten Powers damns all white women who voted for Trump: ‘That makes you racist’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2018 In a panel discussion which aired on Nov. 16, CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers said that all white women who support President Donald Trump are “racist.” Appearing on “CNN Tonight” with host Don Lemon, Powers, referring to white women who back Trump, said: “They’ll say, ‘Well, I’m not racist. […]

Republicans going the way of dinosaurs in Charlotte, NC and other large cities

Republicans going the way of dinosaurs in Charlotte, NC and other large cities

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2018 Shifting demographics have relegated Republicans to the endangered species list in metropolitan areas in red states. One notable example is Charlotte, North Carolina. “The ground is shifting beneath” urban Republicans, Eric Heberlig, a political scientist at UNC Charlotte told the Charlotte Observer. Statewide, the North Carolina Democratic Party broke […]